Veterans Day Message from ANSO President

I want to wish all our Veterans a very special and happy Veterans Day!! A most well deserved recognition for your service and your dedication to our nation and the ideals that we hold so dear. Just as important, and in conjunction with Veterans Day, November is Military Family Appreciation Month, so I also want to thank those who support our Military and our Veterans every day to keep the “home fires” burning! ¡Gracias a nuestras familias!

Warm regards,

Will

William D. Rodriguez, Rear Admiral, United States Navy, Retired

El Presidente de ANSO

Some thoughts & comments …..

Let us remember all the sacrifices made my our military so that we could have a safer life. No amount of appreciation will be sufficient enough to honor them. Let us just pray for them and their families.

Have a Happy Veteran’s Day.

During war, many soldiers, Marines, Sailors, airmen and Coast Guardsmen may fall, but not one of them fails. Going out there and fighting is an achievement by itself. All our men and women are winners. Let us salute them.

Wish you a Happy Veteran’s day.

This year’s Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place—police, firefighters, and members of our armed forces.